With the farce over, Zhang Yang and several members of the Anomaly Investigation Bureau escorted the man back to the bureau first.
The recruitment fair continued, with another veteran member of the Anomaly Investigation Bureau taking Zhang Yang's place.
Mu You stayed at the venue too, continuing to help scout candidates.
Now, however, he was a little distracted, his mind repeatedly returning to the final moment of his fight with The Bereaved.
From that angle, he had been the only person present who could see it. In the last instant before being caught, the thief had clearly taken off his glove, then used some unknown method to make it disappear.
Judging by the circumstances, the man had obviously been afraid they would confiscate the glove, so he had transferred it somewhere at the last moment.
That was hardly surprising. The Thief Saint skin itself was not actually much of a threat. After all, stealing required killing someone first, and killing someone in reality would make them drop items anyway. Besides, death ended everything. Who could worry about whether their belongings were stolen afterward?
In the game, its impact was even smaller. Valuable items could be brought into reality, so even if the Thief Saint killed people for loot in the game, he probably would not get anything truly good. If he got killed instead, he would even drop his own items.
By comparison, the glove was the real threat, because it could steal things in reality without anyone noticing. Even if it only offered one chance per person, what if? What if it happened to steal a Relic?
With something like this threatening his Time Pocket Watch, Mu You thought it would be best to get it into his own hands, or destroy it at the very least. Leaving it